The judge has been dead for 15 years, and no one has been able to find the criminal case file since 2004. Yet a 1977 sex scandal involving famed director Roman Polanski and a 13-year-old girl continues to stalk the courts of Los Angeles.
Academy Award-winning director Roman Polanski hasn’t left France in 30 years because of a U.S. fugitive warrant.
Attorneys for the 75-year-old Academy Award-winning director will ask a judge Tuesday to put the matter to rest once and for all.
Lawyers Douglas Dalton and Chad Hummel last month filed a 239-page dismissal “request,” citing allegations brought to light in the documentary “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.” The documentary was first broadcast in June on HBO, which shares a corporate parent with CNN.
The court filing alleges that a meddling prosecutor who believed Polanski should be behind bars improperly influenced a judge to ignore the terms of a plea bargain, as well as the wishes of the district attorney’s office, the probation officer and the victim. None of them wanted Polanski to serve jail time.
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